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Books on protest movements of the civil rights era for adults and children
Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...
Civil rights icon Dave Dennis to discuss 1964 Freedom Summer at LSU Shreveport
Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...
‘Students will suffer harm’: Education Department’s civil rights office gutted by layoffs, closures
The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...
Bossier Press-Tribune3d
Shreveport native Dave Dennis to share experiences in local, national Civil Rights Movement
Before Civil Rights activist Dave Dennis participated and then helped plan Mississippi’s famous Summer of Freedom in 1964, ...
Wisconsin Examiner1d
Justin Blake continues speaking out about his family’s treatment by law enforcement
A jury found Justin Blake not guilty of charges from a 2021 protest, after which he was placed in a restraint chair.
LGBTQ Nation1mon
Thousands protest Donald Trump’s attempt to erase trans people from Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall Riots were a series of protests in New ... for LGBTQ+ rights and marked the start of the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. It is widely held believed that the two main ...
MSNBC28d
National Park Service tries to erase trans people from the Stonewall riots
“The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil ... riots in Manhattan, New York, which marked a major turning point in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
Los Angeles Times1mon
U.S. Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot
References to transgender people were removed Thursday from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, a park and visitor center in New York that commemorates a 1969 riot ...